# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CSfJeSlpkhi
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11733305-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-08-12T19:49:48.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

👁👄👁 <— Our faces when we saw this image.⁣
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Roughly 4,000 light-years from Earth, the Lagoon Nebula gives astronomers an excellent opportunity to study young stars. Many infant stars give off high-energy light, including X-rays, and they’re seen here in pink based off data from our NASAChandraXray space telescope.⁣
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The combined X-ray data, courtesy of the Mt. Lemmon Sky Center in Arizona, produces this blue and white image.⁣
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Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona⁣
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#LagoonNebula #Nebula #Blue #Pink #NASA

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